Actions in this pledge

• Conserving trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Permanent conservation

  Secure a forest through acquisition or legal agreement to avoid planned or unplanned deforestation or degradation, and/or ensure permanent conservation of land

  Conservation support activities

  Support the operating costs and activities of existing conservation areas, including advocacy for conservation policy

  Additional details

  1. Transition to responsible management 220,000 acres of forests in China by 2025. This will lead to increased resilience and improved ecosystem services that these forests provide to nature and people. Small holders and forest farmland managers sign agreements to improve forest management for defined periods of time. As part of implementation of responsible forest management practices owners identify High Conservation Value areas in these forests in cooperation with local forest experts.
  The supply of forest fiber within China is low and has been declining for decades. Due to low supply, China imports about 50% of its wood. Much of the imported wood comes from countries that have significant deforestation issues. HP-WWF project will improve the availability of sustainably sourced fiber within China’s borders and relieve pressure on forest resources in nearby countries.

  2. We fund the development of science-based guidance on issues central to sustaining world’s forests by helping determine the quantity and quality of forests in key regions. Data obtained in the course of this project contributes to larger global science-based targets (SBT) for forests initiative. SBT tools will help companies better estimate the climate, water and other nature-related co-benefits of their actions.

  3. HP Contributes to One Simple Action digital marketplace initiative by FSC-US.

  

  Conserving

  Land area

  200,000 acres

• Restoring and growing trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Reforestation

  Re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as forest, that has been degraded or where trees are unlikely to regenerate naturally

  Agroforestry

  Activities that establish and manage the integration of trees into agricultural landscapes, silvopastoral systems, farming in forests and along forest margins and tree-crop production

  Mangrove restoration

  Establishment or enhancement of mangroves along coastal areas and in estuaries

  Watershed protection and erosion control

  Establishment and enhancement of forests on very steep sloping land, along water courses, in areas that naturally flood and around critical water bodies

  Additional details

  1. HP and WWF will restore 1,200 acres of lands in Brazil’s Atlantic forest by 2025 with the focus on connectivity for biodiversity, riparian ecosystems restoration, and recharging headwaters and aquifers areas. Key 2021 milestones:
  1.1 In 2021 strengthen governance and convene a multi-stakeholder dialogue for Brazilian Forest Code Compliance and forest landscape restoration in Sierra do Mar, Upper Parana, Paraiba do Sul river basin, and Mogi Guacu river basin (the latter in cooperation with HP supply chain partners)
  1.2 In 2021, multi-scale monitoring protocol in place (landscape scale impact indicators monitored annually 2021-2024)
  1.3 Increase network of local partners, institutional and local implementers
  1.4 Monitoring implementation in collaboration with ESALQ/University of Sao Paulo (Newfor Project): capacity building and innovative technique

  2. Contribute to the restoration of 25 hectares of wild elephant habitat in Yunnan, China

  3. Contribute to mangroves restoration in Indonesia with Arbor Day Foundation

  

  Restoring & Growing

  Trees

  2 million

• Enabling activities for trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Nursery and seedling development

  Establish tree nurseries, including actions such as identification and collection of seeds and/or growing seedlings

  Sustainable forest management

  Activities that support the stewardship and use of forests (including by local communities and indigenous peoples), to maintain their biological diversity, productivity, and regeneration capacity, as well as their potential to fulfil relevant ecological economic and social functions

  Market development for sustainable forest products

  Activities that create markets and demand for ecologically and socially responsible timber and non-timber forest and agroforestry products, e.g. capacity-building for the harvesting and processing of agroforestry products, forest certification standards, etc.

  Education and capacity building

  Forest / tree species conservation and restoration education programmes, targeted educational and behaviour change campaigns, training and capacity building, including promotion of local and traditional knowledge and practices

  Data collection, management and technological tools

  Activities that provide data and/or technological tools to support conservation and restoration (e.g. monitoring etc.)

  Additional details

  1. Seedlings are sourced through collaborations with local native species growing organizations. For example, with Copaiba in Mogi Guacu (Brazil).

  Ongoing activities:
  2. Sustainable Forest Management: HP has committed to improve responsible management of plantation forests in China to improve their biodiversity and resilience and to improve the situation of availability of sustainably sourced fiber within the country. Aim to complete in 2024.

  3. Monitoring: HP-WWF team is collaborating with local University in Sao Paulo to improve novel monitoring protocol and to build capacity. To be completed in 2022.

  4. HP has invested in the development of place-based spatial tool to help companies determine where their investments are needed most and would provide best returns in terms of ecosystem well-being and its benefits to be completed in 2022.

  

  Enabling